international history
digital humanities / digital history
(digital) memory studies
History (and historians) within a precise social, political, technological context.
The rise of computing, networks and data since 1945.
1959 (dealing with too much data): François Furet and Adeline Daumard. ‘Méthodes de l’Histoire sociale: les Archives notariales et la Mécanographie’. Annales ESC, 14(4).
1961 (cross-referencing two datasets): Paul Garelli and Jean-Claude Gardin. ‘Étude Par Ordinateurs Des Établissements Assyriens En Cappadoce’. Annales ESC, 16(5).
Mayer-Schönberger, Viktor, and Kenneth Cukier. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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for non-French examples:
Historian looking at a see of data.
Swiss project (EPFL, Université de Lausanne, University of Zürich) with Luxemburgish partnership (C2DH)
Bunout, Estelle, et al., eds. Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Tools, Methodology, Epistemology, and the Changing Practices of Writing History in the Context of Historical Newspapers Mass Digitization. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.
Big Data (of the past) is a social construct as all data.
Boyd, Danah, and Kate Crawford. ‘CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA: Provocations for a Cultural, Technological, and Scholarly Phenomenon’. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 2012.
- Claire Lemercier and Claire Zalc, Quantitative Methods in the Humanities. An Introduction, London: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Milligan, Ian. ‘Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997-2010’. Canadian Historical Review, 94(4), 2013.
- Putnam, Lara. ‘The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast’. The American Historical Review, 121(2), 2016.
The question of distant reading.
Well. Elon Musk.
Most citizens are confronted to the (historical) past in a non-academic / secondary education context.
We should not assume that our students are better fitted to the datafied world we are living in.
Haber, Peter. ‘Digital Past: Geschichtswissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter’. Digital Past, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2011.
Clavert, Frédéric, and Andreas Fickers. ‘On Pyramids, Prisms, and Scalable Reading’. Journal of Digital History, no. jdh001, 2021.